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Word: construction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plan is still just an imaginative report, and its chances of reaching the brick-and-mortar stage are uncertain. When the Report was released in December, one optimistic committee member offered "even money--not much money, but even money," that they will raise the $5 to $20 million to construct the physical plant. But most foundations, while happy to finance reports and studies, decline to pay for buildings. If New College is to succeed, it will require an unprecedented loan, or a substantial gift from a benefactor who recognizes the educational advances the Plan represents...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Attack on Academic Rigidity Calls for 'Major Departure' | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Eventually the Art Center plans to construct a grand opera hall, seating 3800, which will be capable of supporting the Metropolitan Opera for a two week season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Permanent Theatre for Art Center Will Depend Upon Public Support | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...scheme calls for the Commonwealth to lease the land to MeBAC and to construct foundations for a theatre (an expenditure of some $200,000). This theatre, as well as a projected center for visual arts and opera house, would then be run by MeBAC and the original debt to the Commonwealth paid off, hopefully, by box office receipts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theatre on the Charles | 1/23/1959 | See Source »

...testing fuel and materials for future power reactors. It is building the largest U.S. all-nuclear power station (cost: more than $45 million) at Dresden, Ohio for Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, and a $19.5 million reactor at Eureka, Calif, for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., has been selected to construct nuclear power stations in Switzerland, West Germany and Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: The Powerhouse | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Supporters of the proposed Armenian Church on Brattle St. have received the backing of the Superior Court in their efforts to construct an edifice which would exceed the allowed building height in the residential area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Court Exempts Church Height Limit | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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